Even in the most competitive urban markets, if you're selling VoIP + Data as a combined offering, I'd bet that your ARPU is at least $200+ / month
Heck, from our experience, we find that voice revenues are generally 2-4x data revenues -- so if a business is paying $75 / month for a business connection, they will probably spend $150-250 / month on VoIP (for business, say we assume an average of $30 / handset -- that's 5-10 handsets) So, say you have 15 business customers at $200 / month, and 20 residential customers at $50 / month for the evenings You're still @ $4k / AP Or, since we're ultimately talking channels -- with GPS synchronization, it's possible to put a minimum of 2 APs / channel (and if you're on a building in an urban environment, you could be stupid like us and put 4 APs on a single channel =) In this scenario, the value per channel of LEGAL high-power unlicensed spectrum keeps going up -Charles P.S. -- care to share your numbers? I only have personal data to go by...and I in range? Or way off? -----Original Message----- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Scott Carullo Sent: Saturday, April 11, 2009 1:25 AM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] High Throughput Licensed vs. Unlicensed - change of topic -- customers / AP Or AP/subscriber ratio is super low where we dont usually have more than a dozen or so but this is necessary for selling optimal speed and providing quality voip services. 5MB speeds to our customers doesn't impress them, 10-20 does. Its a tough market here with lots of competition. VoIP gets a bit hairy over about 12 customers on an ap pulling that kind of bw. We have lots of APs / Towers :) Scott Carullo Brevard Wireless 321-205-1100 x102 -------- Original Message -------- > From: "Travis Johnson" <t...@ida.net> > Sent: Saturday, April 11, 2009 12:11 AM > To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org> > Subject: Re: [WISPA] High Throughput Licensed vs. Unlicensed - change of topic -- customers / AP > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
